Pera ♡ ´･ᴗ･ `♡

Goth bimbo || your local anarchist || ♋️♍️♋️

[fuck-all-governments]

[anarchist-revolution]

[anarcho-communism-revolution]

[catchymemes]

[technofeudalism]

this guy really always had something to say about almost everything and nearly all of it is still completely relevant almost 200 years later. fascinating stuff.

[tampire]

Ariel Under The Sea

[shakespera]

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

The Habsburg-Rosenberg cup belonging to Georg Nicklaus Graf von Rosenberg, counsellor to Emperor Leopold I. Crafted in Vienna in 1665.

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

[angstics]

gerard way | nashville, TN | august 23, 2022 (nashvillescene.com)

[killaura]

gerard way // detail of the fall of the rebel angels, luca giordano (1660-1665)

[sovietpostcards]

Skiing on Neva River in Leningrad. Photo by Sigizmund Kropivnitsky (early 1950s).

[visit-ba-sing-se]

One thing I will never get over is the origin of the word "mesmerizing". It sounds so etheral and like it should have it's origin in old greek or latin, but instead it only goes back to the year 1819 and this guy:

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 - 1815), a German/Austrian phyisican who developed the theory of what he called "animal magnetism", an invisible natural force possed by all living things. Based on that theory, he claimed to be able to heal basically any ailment by the use of magnetic healing streams.

His methods included, among others, attaching steal magnets to a patient (during a seizure), the lying on of hands and group therapy sessions. For those, he had people sit around a tub filled with sand or iron fillings (serving as "storage" for the magnetic energy) and hold ropes connected to it. Many of thess meetings, he concluded by playing on a glass harmonica.

After he had been quite "successful" with this pratice in Vienna for a while, a commission set up by the empress of Austria declared Mesmer a fraud in 1777, and he moved to Paris. There, he continued where had he left off, became successful again quickly - and was found to be a fraud by another commission, this time set up by the French crown in 1784.

And the word mesmerizing goes back to him, out of all things and people. Which is the reason I cannot ever look at it again the same way, and I hope now you won't as well.

[workersolidarity]

[radicalgraff]

"Capitalism is Genocide,"

Seen in Tucson, Arizona

[workersolidarity]

[catchymemes]

[utopyalarguzelldir]